Fish Factory

Camilla (she/they) is a Naarm-based multidisciplinary artist, sustainability advocate and learning designer.

She has exhibited in multiple spaces including NOIR Darkroom, Counihan Gallery, Schoolhouse Studios, Platform Arts Geelong and Honey Bones Gallery. She is halfway through a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University. Camilla also has experience teaching art and painting murals. In 2024, Camilla completed two artist residencies, one in Estonia and one in Iceland. Thematically, their work sits in the nexus of climate change, mental health, and corporate culture. Formally, Camilla is interested in different ways of framing experience through illustration, collage and digital aesthetics.

THIS RESIDENCY

I have explored compositional space. I have explored absence and presence on the page and at large. I have gone through the motions of a process. I have engaged with flow and with experimentation and with not caring what comes out. I have played with intense technical rendering and then free, sloppy, mark-making – and have experimented with putting them both together. Constraint and catharsis. Through this, I’ve inadvertently explored emotional processing and what it looks like through art. I have made according to my value of using whatever you have and whatever is around you, and by doing so, have embraced chance and spontaneity.

I have drawn from life, both macro and micro. I have drawn from books, magazines and photos. I have inadvertently explored repetition. I have yet again been drawn to collage. I have frozen, been frozen, and defrosted. I have embraced free association and absurdism through words and tacit means. I have reflected my surroundings and my inner landscape too. I have admitted that illustration is important to me. and that it is a style that I can’t help but carry with me. I have been angry and I have been thoughtful I have critiqued certain people and parts of society at large. The phrase ‘at large’ has been echoing around my head. I have been accepting my head. I have expressed deep cynicism, frustration and perhaps a kind of unravelling. I have worn the same ski boots every day. I mean snowshoes. I am new to such a chilly lexicon. I have drunk a lot of coffee made by different people and different methods. I have thought about outsiders, about oppression, about the representation of the world. I have been amazed by how much effort it takes to draw a single stone. I have concentrated, and thus, been free.

Website: https://camillaeustance.com/

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